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I highly doubt anybody seeking out to create and use an Object Pascal development environment wants anything to do with C++. Perhaps you meant to say "Eiffel"?
by Roboprog 9y ago
I highly doubt anybody seeking out to create and use an Object Pascal development environment wants anything to do with C++.
Perhaps you meant to say "Eiffel"? :-)
YMMV.
- badsectoracula 9y agoIt would be useful to create tools for existing codebases. For example ~10 years ago when i worked at a game company, we were considering C++ Builder to create the tools for the engine because we could use the engine libraries directly (the engine was really a collection of many small libraries). However that idea was abandoned because C++ Builder at the time had very bad support for C++ (a few years ago they switched to Clang and modified it to use their C++ extensions, but that was too little too late - and AFAIK it wasn't 100% compatible with the previous compiler).
- pjmlp 9y agoActually many C++ devs are ex-Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C++ Builder users. It just felt natural to use both languages. C++ was the welcoming home that we never taken C for, thanks to offering language features that we could use to for safer applications, and more developer friendly abstractions.